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Dniepropetrovsk – Moscow

MSN:

145-039

YOM:

1997

Flight number:

UDN505

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Following an uneventful flight from Dniepropetrovsk, the copilot started the approach to Moscow-Sheremetyevo Airport runway 25R with the flaps down at 22°. After touchdown, he started the braking procedure but the aircraft failed to decelerate as expected. The emergency braking systems were activated without any noticeable effect. Approaching the end of the runway at a speed of 70 knots, the copilot turn to the right in an attempt to veer off runway. The airplane ground looped then contacted a grassy area and lost its undercarriage before coming to rest. All 34 occupants escaped uninjured while the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

Probable cause:

Failure of the brakes is suspected.

Crash of a Yakovlev Yak-40K in Ust-Kamchatsk

Date & Time: Apr 16, 2011 at 1600 LT

Type of aircraft:

Yakovlev Yak-40

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Registration:

RA-88241

Flight Phase:

Takeoff (climb)

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Ust-Kamchatsk - Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

MSN:

9641351

YOM:

1977

Flight number:

PTK123

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The three engine aircraft was performing flight PTK123 from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Ossora. En route, the crew was informed about poor weather conditions at destination and decided to divert to the Ust-Kamchatsk Airport. Crew and passengers wait there few hours moments for weather improvement but eventually decided to return to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. During the takeoff roll, the captain decided to abort for unknown reason. Unable to stop within the remaining distance (runway 01/19 is 1,725 metres long), the aircraft overran, lost its right main gear and rolled for dozen metres before coming to rest in about 50 centimeters of snow. All 26 occupants escaped uninjured while the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

Crash of an Antonov AN-148-100E in Garbuzovo: 6 killed

Date & Time: Mar 5, 2011 at 1040 LT

Type of aircraft:

Antonov AN-148

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Registration:

61708

Flight Phase:

Flight

Flight Type:

Test

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Site:

Plain, Valley

Schedule:

Voronezh - Voronezh

MSN:

41-03

YOM:

2010

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The aircraft departed Voronezh-Pridacha Airport in the morning to conduct a test flight with six crew on board, two pilots from the manufacturer, two engineers and two pilots from the Myanmar Air Force to whom the aircraft should be delivered. In flight, the crew decided to perform an emergency descent. During this manoeuvre, the aircraft reached an excessive speed and lost part of its tail, stabilizers and elevators. It entered an uncontrolled descent and crashed in a snow covered field located near Garbuzovo, bursting into flames. The aircraft was totally destroyed and all six occupants were killed. Tail parts, stabilizers and elevators were later found about 3 km from the point of impact. The airplane was operated by the Voronezh Aircraft Production Association. (VASO - Voronezhskoye Aktsionernoye Samoletostroitelnoe Obshestvo). First accident involving an Antonov AN-148.

Probable cause:

The cause of the accident was the inadvertently permitted the aircraft to accelerate 110 km/h above the design limit speed during an emergency descent. This led to low-frequency vibrations on the aircraft in all axes, an increase of alternating accelerations exceeding the margin of safety. The result was the break up of the aircraft in the air, followed by its collision with the earth.
The main factors contributing to the accident were:
- Untimely and inadequate actions of the crew to control the emergency decent,
- Lack of proper coordination among the members of the crew,
- Deviations from recommendations in the flight manual in executing the emergency descent,
- Misleading indications on basic instruments when outside characteristic operating conditions.

Ground fire of a Tupolev TU-154B-2 in Surgut: 3 killed

Date & Time: Jan 1, 2011 at 1525 LT

Type of aircraft:

Tupolev TU-154

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Registration:

RA-85588

Flight Phase:

Parking

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Landing (descent or approach)

Schedule:

Surgut - Moscow

MSN:

83A588

YOM:

1983

Flight number:

KGL348

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126

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Captain / Total flying hours:

12202

Captain / Total hours on type:

2780.00

Copilot / Total flying hours:

3775

Copilot / Total hours on type:

3279

Aircraft flight hours:

32354

Aircraft flight cycles:

13147

Circumstances:

Ready for taxi, the crew started the engines when a short circuit occurred and a fire erupted in the rear compartment. The evacuation of all 134 occupants was initiated but three passengers died while 32 others were seriously injured. The aircraft was totally destroyed by fire. The OAT was -29° C at the time of the incident.

Probable cause:

A short circuit emerged while the aircraft generators were connected to the aircraft's electrical system after start-up of the engines, via an APU. The short circuit caused a strong fire in the generators compartment in the tail which spread rapidly through the fuselage. The cause of the fire was an electrical arc produced by electrical currents exceeding ten to 20 times the nominal loads when two generators not synchronized with each other were brought online but got connected together instead of being connected to parallel busses. The following contributing factors were identified:
- Poor technical conditions of contacts TKS233DOD responsible for connecting the generators with the electrical busses, that were damaged by prolonged operation without maintenance. A contact normally open was welded and fractured insulation material moved between contacts that are normally closed. These abnormal contact positions led to the connection between #2 and #3 generators.
- Differences in the schematic diagrams of generator 2 and generators 1 and 3. When the switch is moved from "check" to "enable" with no delay in the "neutral" position generator 2 is brought online without time delay which leads to increased wear of normally closed contacts in the TKS233DOD unit.
- The specific design of the electrical systems to ensure power supply to each bus from either the APU or either engine integrated drive generator.

Final Report:

RA-74016

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Crash of an Antonov AN-22A near Krasny Oktyabr: 12 killed

Date & Time: Dec 28, 2010 at 2130 LT

Type of aircraft:

Antonov AN-22

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Registration:

RA-09343

Flight Phase:

Flight

Flight Type:

Ferry

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Plain, Valley

Schedule:

Voronezh - Tver

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043482272

YOM:

1974

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The crew was returning to his base at Tver-Migalovo after he delivered a MiG-31 to the Voronezh Military Aviation Engineering University. While in cruising flight, the four engine aircraft entered an uncontrolled descent and crashed in a snow covered prairie located near Krasny Oktyabr. The aircraft was totally destroyed and all 12 occupants were killed.

Crash of an Antonov AN-24RV at Rogachevo AFB

Date & Time: Dec 14, 2010

Type of aircraft:

Antonov AN-24

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RA-47305

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Landing (descent or approach)

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Arkhangelsk - Rogachevo

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5 73 103 05

YOM:

1975

Flight number:

AUL137

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After landing on runway 16 at Rogachevo AFB (Anderma-2), the aircraft encountered difficulties to stop within the remaining distance. It overran, lost its left main gear and came to rest 8 metres further. All 39 occupants escaped uninjured and the aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

Crash of a Tupolev TU-154M in Moscow: 2 killed

Date & Time: Dec 4, 2010 at 1436 LT

Type of aircraft:

Tupolev TU-154

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RA-85744

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Cessna 208B Grand Caravan

Schedule:

Moscow - Makhatchkala

MSN:

92A-927

YOM:

1992

Flight number:

DAG372

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160

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Captain / Total flying hours:

17384

Captain / Total hours on type:

10000.00

Copilot / Total flying hours:

3111

Copilot / Total hours on type:

1150

Aircraft flight hours:

9285

Aircraft flight cycles:

2983

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Daghestan Airlines (Avialinii Dagestana) flight DAG372 departed Moscow-Vnukovo Airport at 1408LT bound for Makhatchkala, Daghestan. Fourteen minutes after takeoff, while cruising at an altitude of 9,000 metres some 80 kilometers south of Moscow, the crew informed ATC about the failure of the engines n°1 and 3 and was cleared to return to Moscow-Domodedovo Airport. On final, the aircraft descended below the clouds at a height of 500 feet but was not properly aligned with the runway centerline. It landed hard to the right of runway 32R, went out of control, impacted an earth mound and bushed before coming to rest, broken in two. Two passengers were killed while 78 other occupants were injured.

Probable cause:

Erroneous actions on part of the crew who, while landing in instrument meteorological conditions with one engine running, permitted the aircraft to touch down significantly to the right of the runway.
These actions were the result of following factors:
- The flight engineer inadvertently turned off the fuel booster pumps of the service tank while working the procedures for manual fuel transfer during the climb, which led to fuel starvation, all engines spooling down with the outer engines (#1 and #3) shutting down as well as loss of electrical power for 2:23 minutes due to loss of all three generators
- Failure by the crew to take use of all available possibilities to restore on-board systems after generator #2 was recovered and the APU spooled up and was successfully connected
- Failure to comply with recommendations "flying with two engines inoperative" and "approach and landing with two engines inoperative"
- Lack of leadership and lack of management and distribution of responsibilities by the captain leading to independent but not always accurate actions by the other crew members as result of insufficient training in crew resource management
- A complex wind environment varying with heights which contributed to the deviation from the proper approach trajectory while the crew was flying on stand by instruments rather than regular instruments
- Insufficient training of the crew as a whole as well as each individual to act in emergency and complex scenarios
- The non-implementation of safety recommendations developed in earlier investigations to prevent the flight engineer inadvertently turn off the fuel booster pumps.

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Crash of a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan near Kirensk

Date & Time: Oct 2, 2010 at 1024 LT

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RA-67701

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Flight

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